Ethiopian Orthodox Songs

While adding some more ikons to my other blog, Ikonostasis, I chanced upon some Ethiopian Orthodox song videos. Actually, it started with just one, and then I found there are dozens of these song videos on YouTube. I would like to share the wonderful spiritual song of our Orthodox Ethiopian brethren with visitors to my blog. Rather than adding the videos directly to the blog, slowing things down, I am just providing the hyperlinks to twelve song videos. Click on any link, and you should be able to view the video.

As my intention is not to entertain but to communicate, please forgive me if I sometimes seem to want to do both. If you happen to live in a locality where there is an Ethiopian or an Eritrean Orthodox church, you can attend a Sunday service and experience this worship music first hand. The Orthodox of Ethiopia have preserved much of the dance, the musical melodies and the instruments of ancient Israel, and when you worship with them, their singing seems to be coming from somewhere deep inside the earth, not deep as in "underground," but deep as in "where paradise still exists."

Here are the hyperlinks:

Hale Luya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSFySVfV1pQ

Emebet Libel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEOXm9NkVEI

Ethiopian Orthodox Song (No Title)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv39luIWxnQ

Mertnesh Mezmur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mof6LBWDZA0

Be Bete Mekdesih
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSkj9-tucW8

God is Great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWyGlgaKF2s

I sing for Him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV7U_CmiMhs

The King of Earth and Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lRpvoeCJo

Elro’ea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrVr2h1iJ0

Amanuel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBAMIu2g_8w

You are My Savior
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQhNq0oMzc

Beregnet Sale Abatachin Muse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwVMj8zrSCE